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I am doing some research that involves a *lot* of google searches. Because this research involves a significant number of directed queries, it seems logical to hide this information as much as practical. If there is a web host who notices sequential names in a Google referer URL repeatedly, this might raise suspicion or alter behavior which could skew results. Similarly, it is desirable to hide IP information from both the web host (for similar reasons) and possibly even search engines.

My bank is to blame for this… They require me to change my password every other week, which seems a tad excessive. Anywhoo, you also can’t reuse passwords. So what I’ve been doing is just entering jiberish and having firefox remember it for me. Good, right? Ok – except when it changed the form on me, so firefox wouldn’t auto-enter it.

It’s easier than you might think. socks is actually built into openSSH, so its really a trivial matter to setup a local proxy.